Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller
11 July 2022
Elia Zenghelis: The Image as Emblem and Storyteller11 July 2022
β Richard Hall
…Zenghelis, ‘The Image as Emblem and Storyteller’ workshop and talk summary (Cambridge MA: Harvard GSD, 2016). Paraphrasing Elia Zenghelis, ‘The Aesthetics of the Present’ (London: AD Vol. 58 3/4, 1988)….
The Manufacture of architecture: Joseph Paxton and the development of the Great Stove
9 November 2023
The Manufacture of architecture: Joseph Paxton and the development of the Great Stove9 November 2023
β Hugh Strange
…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZkFtK8HBYg Joseph Paxton was born in 1803 in Bedfordshire and left…
Suddenly This View
5 September 2024
Suddenly This View5 September 2024
β Drawing Architecture Studio
…Roundabout, 2022–2023. Courtesy of the architects. Drawing Architecture Studio, House, Xi Si Qu, 2022–2023. Courtesy of the architects. Drawing Architecture Studio, Binhe Market, 2022–2023. Courtesy of the architects. It was…
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann
14 February 2019
Alternative Histories: Hans van der Heijden on Josef Hoffmann14 February 2019
Hans van der Heijden Architect, Josef Hoffmann’s perspective sketch of a cottage, 2018. Medium-density fibreboard, 100 × 100 × 140 mm. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), perspective sketch, cottage, c.1900. Pencil on…
Branzi, Observed: Autocatalytic, Earnestly Jaded
25 March 2024
Branzi, Observed: Autocatalytic, Earnestly Jaded25 March 2024
…a figurative result of the infrastructures that enable the reproduction of labour. Andrea Branzi, No-Stop City: Archizoom Associati (Orleans: HYX editions, 2006), 118–9. Image courtesy of the author. Like many…
Shape
28 April 2020
Shape28 April 2020
β Charles Moore
…of one and one, each succeeding number is the sum of the two previous numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc. This relation, drawn as…
Florian Beigel & Aru’s Pojagi House: Searching for the Essential
28 June 2021
Florian Beigel & Aru’s Pojagi House: Searching for the Essential28 June 2021
β Louis Mayes
…And, can we design in a ‘non-finite’ manner? As research material, the sketch remains an intimate and unadulterated manifestation of a designer’s thoughts during the design process – a direct…
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
7 June 2017
Karl Friedrich Schinkel7 June 2017
β Basile Baudez
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Construction for Entrance Facade, Tilebein House, Stettin, Prussia, 1806. Sepia ink and colour washes on paper, two sheets joined, 1000 × 605 mm. DMC 1856.1. In…
Clancy Moore: Less is more
24 May 2022
Clancy Moore: Less is more24 May 2022
β Chris Foges
Download the full article: Chris Foges, ‘Less is More’, RIBAJ, January 2022: 8–10. This linked text is part of an ongoing series that records the building projects undertaken at Shatwell…
DMJ βΒ From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun
9 May 2023
DMJ βΒ From Hearths to Volcanoes: the Armenian glkhatun9 May 2023
…that he had arrived.’ – General von Moltke, 1851 The glkhatun, literally ‘head house’ in Armenian, consists of a large rectangular room, often carved deep into the side of a…
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)
7 September 2022
Krier/Culot: Architecture, language and process (1977)7 September 2022
β Robert Maxwell
…9812 1380 and Passcode: 752332 Full Text: ‘Architecture, Language and Process’ by Robert MaxwellDownload ‘A City within a City’, Leon Krier’s New Quartier de la Villette, 1976. Reproduced from AD/3/77….
Nuno Melo Sousa: on small papers
26 May 2023
Nuno Melo Sousa: on small papers26 May 2023
β Nuno Melo Sousa
…ends. Cathartic. Erratic. They play on different octaves and rhythmic sections. Often in apnea. Not less often with heavy breathing. Sustain, delay and echo. Magnetic resonance. Bones without fat. Mental….